THE UNITED NATIONS (SECURITY COUNCIL) ACT, 1947 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS 

1.  Short title. 
2.  Measures under Art 41 of the Charter of the United Nations. 
 

THE UNITED NATIONS (SECURITY COUNCIL) ACT, 1947

ACT NO. 43 OF 1947

[20th December, 1947.]

An Act to enable effect to be given to certain provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.

WHEREAS it is expedient to enable effect to be given to certain provisions of the Charter of the United 
Nations; 

It is hereby enacted as follows:— 

1. Short title.—This Act may be called the United Nations (Security Council) Act, 1947.

2.  Measures  under  Art  41  of  the  Charter  of  the  United  Nations.—If,  under  Article  41  of  the 
Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on the 26th day of June 1945 the Security Council 
of the United Nations calls upon the Central Government to apply any measures, not involving the use of 
armed  force,  to  give  effect  to  any  decision  of  that  Council,  the  Central  Government  may,  by  order 
published  in  the  Official  Gazette,  make  such  provisions  (including  provisions  having  extra-territorial 
operation)  as appear to it necessary  or  expedient  for  enabling  those  measures  to  be  effectively  applied, 
and  without  prejudice  to  the  generality  of  the  foregoing  power,  provision  may  be  made  for  the 
punishment of persons offending against the order.